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Comments from advance readers of
Out Here

“Rock has no tongue to speak,” but Ursula, with these poems, gives
the Steens Mountain country luminous, clear voice, and Roger, with
these images, a sacred, orchestral music. There is intimacy and
beauty and spareness on every page of Out Here — just as on the land
itself.

— Molly Gloss, novelist and poet
Author of The Jump-Off Creek and The Hearts of Horses

Out Here is for me a hymn in praise of Steens Mountain, a territory
I’ve revered since childhood. Roger Dorband’s precise photographs
present us with the geology and natural life in all their intricate
particularity. Ursula K. Le Guin walks out one clear night, under
“the endless abyss of light” from the stars, into “blazing silence”
and “eternity made visible.” Their work combines to provide an
invaluable sight of the holiness we inhabit.

— William Kittredge, fiction writer and environmentalist
Author of Owning It All and Hole in the Sky

Ursula Le Guin and Roger Dorband have created a book of startling
beauty. Le Guin’s poems capture the melancholy beauty of Harney
County, while Dorband’s photographs illuminate the surprising grace
of the landscape. Together, they are a joy. Out Here helps us see
the desert with new eyes.

— Nancy Langston, environmental historian
Author of Where Land and Water Meet and Toxic Bodies

Southeast Oregon high desert, uncharismatic empty working space is
beauty. Dorband’s photographs magically both near and far. Le
Guin’s sketches precise and ancient, dry. Each of her poems a
unique event, they don’t walk but hop, skip, jump — new rhythms, new
rhymes. Here’s a book to make us want less of more — may the owl
repackage us and put us there.

— Gary Snyder,
poet and philosopher of nature
Author of The Practice of the Wild and
No Nature: New and Selected
Poems